Chicago - 5/20

We're doing a Meet the Vloggers event at the Michigan Ave. Apple Store this Saturday May 20 at 6PM.

Speakers will be me, Bill Streeter from LO-FI SAINT LOUIS, Richard from The Richard Show, Chuck Olsen from Minnesota Stories, David Meade from DavidMeade.com and the folks from Feedburner will be there with stickers!!

Tim Stotz from the Progrum will also be there (http://www.timstotz.com/vodcast/).

And Mason Dixion from Motion Graphics Chicago, and Kelly from Kelly Belly will do a vlogging workshop at 3PM prior to the 6pm presentation.

Informal Drinks and Dinner - Macworld SF 1/9

Update:Please try to arrive at 6:30. I've made a guaranteed reservation.

Please RSVP in the comments and check back here for any updates.

Here's an expanded note for those who's like more info:

I've done four Meet the Vloggers events in Boston and one in San Francisco.

In Boston they have been a brunch, lunch, dinner, and drinks and dinner. In San Francisco we met for drinks and dinner with the Current TV meetup.

Others vloggers have done more formal Meet the Vloggers presentations worldwide where vloggers get up in from of a room and present and teach vlogging. This gathering is not that.

Meet the Vloggers is not defined as presenting in front of an audience at an Apple Store, although a lot of times it is that. The name was created for the first Apple Store presentation but that does not define what it is.

Meet the Vloggers - SF 10/19 at 7:00 PM

The Brewery and Restaurant are housed in a beautiful historic brick warehouse directly across the street from the Moscone Center and the Yerba Buena Center for the Performing Arts (including the SFMOMA).

Meet the Vloggers - Lowell, MA

Vloggers intersect with Lowell Telecommunications public access television folks who've agreed to critique our introduction to videoblogging presentation. At 9 pm, we walk to nearby 119 Gallery where local mediamakers will VJ their videoworks.

Attended part I of IV-part Video Mixing Workshop last night on the history of video mixing given by Walter Wright, co-founder of 119 Gallery:

Campus map to find the Campus Center:http://www.wpi.edu/About/Visitors/Images/walkingmap.pdf(The Campus Center is #6, behind Alumni Gym (#3) and next to Olin Hall (#23). The star is where they are building a new Admissions building and the circle in the center of campus is a fountain. These are just mentioned as landmarks.)

Jan McLaughlin, a videoblogger (vlogger) from New York, will be visiting and we will be presenting about videoblogging. This will include everything from what equipment to use to how to drive traffic to your site, how to build community through videoblogging and how to subscribe to news feeds using RSS so you can watch other peoples' videos. This will be a fun, interactivepresentation. I hope you can make it.

If you cannot make this time but are interested, please let me know and I will keep you on the list for future events.

A bit about videoblogging for those of you who are not familiar with it:

Videoblogging, also known as vlogging, is a computer-based form of communication using blogs to show videos you make. These can be for personal, journalistic, artistic or other purposes. Maybe you want to tell the story of what is happening at city hall or maybe you want to show snippets from your child's birthday party. If you can videotape it, you can vlog it. Think of this as being similar to podcasting, but with video. It's really quite simple to do and cheap as well. Some examples of vlogs:

Meet The Vloggers Calendar

A video invitation to Meet The Vloggers in Soho

7pm Saturday, September 24thApple Store Soho: Meet the Vloggers!Come hang out with us, watch videos, see the tools we're making, get started yourself.What better way to spend a Saturday evening in New York City?If you are a videoblogger and want to present, email Jay or Ryanne.

What's This?

MEET THE VLOGGERS is a series of presentations and events focused on videoblogging. We see these events happening all over the world, getting more and more people involved in this wondeful form of grass roots media.

Videoblogging is a new form of expression centering around posting videos to a website and encouraging an audience response. It is the next step from text blogging and podcasting.

A community of artists, video editors, podcasters, bloggers, and software developers has formed around this new mode of communication. We are a group of people who use videos as a normal part of our blogging.

Are you interested in putting together a MEET THE VLOGGERS event in your city? Join the MEET THE VLOGGERS Group and make it happen!

Directions:
Located in the heart of Boston's Historic theatre district on the corner of Stuart and Tremont Streets or The Boylston Stop on the Green Line or the New England Medical Center stop on the Orange Line.

Topics of discussion:Videobloggers show their favorite videos and viewing tools, discuss video blog creation, and share tips and techniques.

Hear how you can create your own video blog for free!

Videoblogging is a new form of expression centering around posting videos to a website and encouraging an audience response. It is the next step from text blogging and podcasting.

A community of artists, video editors, podcasters, bloggers, and software developers has formed around this new mode of communication. We are a group of people who use videos as a normal part of our blogging.Speakers:Steve Garfield - WelcomeJay Dedman - I love you all, What is videoblogging?Josh Leo - Show and tell, showing videoblogsJoshua Kinberg - Watching video: ANT, iTunesRyanne Hodson - How to create a video blog, point people in the right direction, ex: freevlog Bre Pettis - Show and tell, showing videoblogsAdam Quirk - Vlogging without video camerasAndrew Baron - From Rocketboom; How text and audio bloggers can get involved in videobloggingChristopher Weagel - Videoblogging allowing a much wider variety of content than anything mainstreamSchlomo Rabinowitz - Show and tell, showing videoblogsClint Sharp - Links as currency

7:00-7:20 Open for questions, show and tell, audience participation, etc...